Smarter meters for a fairer electricity system

It is amazing in this era that meter readers still visit our homes. The Grattan Institute is right to propose meter upgrades to enable better pricing, but it needn't be so spooked by the Victorian debacle.

Computer chips are cheap. So is computer memory and IT communications technology.

The odds are you’ve thrown out (or hopefully recycled) a perfectly good, functioning mobile phone in the past year or two which proves the point.

So why is it that we run our electricity system on the basis that computing power, communications and memory are extraordinarily expensive?

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